What are your pet peeves re English usage?

Yes, it does matter, being on a mattress with the mistress, it relieves the stress. It's not pointless...it's a matter of loveliness...

Typical Gallic view..but agreeable.

"The stars are matter, we are matter, but it doesn't matter". Don van Vliet, circa 1971.

That's deep McTag. It's going to take me at least two bongs and an eccy to work out the True Meaning of Life which I know is hidden in secret code somewhere within the lettering of those memorable words.



Francis is yet another who has decided to speak to us in cryptic code in between bonking his extensive harem of sultry mistresses on an old wine-stained mattress in a musty garret in the seedier part of Montmartre on the Right Bank.

Hi Steve! Where there's Steve - there's Walter lurking around in the shadows not far behind.

Nothing gay - it's just a sort of cyber-symbiosis like a pilot fish on the end of a shark's nose...

you're sharp today herberts.

Though Walter is more like everyone's favorite philosophy professor than an aussy fish.

Speaking of which, how DOES the pilot know which way the shark want to go? And if it doesn't isn't the term pilot fish a misnomer?

Steve...

Dear O dear, like all Temperate Zone dwellers you haven't a clue about sharks.

You've got it the wrong way around. The pilot fish just want to swim around wherever their mood will take them, but unfortunately these little fish are greatly admired by sharks who are constantly trailing behind them and trying to brown-nose them.

illuminating erudite concise and helpful. Are you sure you haven't borrowed Herbert's machine?

Steve...

That one's a little too arcane for me to decipher. Please elucidate at your earliest convenience.

Meanwhile, I'm going to return to my favourite 'Granny Humpers' website to check out the latest colourful pictorials...

H.G. WELLS...

Sharks aren't Australian...they are Ubiquitous.

But the "best" sharks are Australian sharks. Also the biggest........ and the meanest. we have all the best stuff here.

They have sharks as monstrous near South Africa just for starters.

You should see the sharks in tailored suits on Wall Street . . .

setanta...

dlowan...

Who are you kidding? Everyone knows they're Australian sharks taking a break from Australian waters in the off-season. Beaches along the South African coast during this time are littered with scores of regurgitated Aussie beer cans along the waterline from the incoming tide.

Sharks swallow these from along the coast of Australia and then vomit them up in South African waters. XXXX BITTER, Foster's Lager, Cooper's Sparkling Ale, Redback, VB, Carlton's... every off-season these cans are washed up upon the shores of South Africa from the stomachs of True Blue Aussie sharks having a holiday away from home...

Okay we've probably exhausted, at least for the purposes of an English language thread, the subject of the contents the stomachs of peregrinating sharks.

I just know I'm going to regret asking this but....

why is your avatar a "BANNED" baby orang, herberts?

McTag... the simple answer is that it's in anticipation of being banned for the third time in 6 months from an English forum site. It's a bit like the kamikaze pilots who used to wear a bandana around their head upon which was written a prayer for their soon-to-be-departed souls...

Forum sites that are administered by the English are by far and away the most sensitive to any transgressions against PC ideology. They have absolutely no balls at all when it comes to allowing for a free exchange of opinion and criticism of racial minority ghetto culture and the shenanigans of the Muslim communities in Western societies.

To be a member of a boots-and-all debating forum where the administration staff is not in the least bit intimidated by prissy little PC Rules of Conduct you would have to register with my Home Page forum site.

Whenever someone goes beyond the boundaries of good taste it's not the administration who need to scramble to hit the Censorship Button - but instead, it's the membership itself which lambastes that errant poster. Everything is left on the board... no lock-downs, no lock-outs, no censorship.

And if it's too hot for you in the kitchen - then stay away!

So it's not just me who has objected to egregious racist rants.

I share some of your concern about the conduct and motives of some groups within our western society, btw, but I consider other forums better suited to comment on that.

Can't we have some amusement writing on this topic without the periodic injection of unpleasantness and provocation? I hope we can.

High hop,



Wee can,